This morning, I posted a link to a video on Facebook of a woman pulling her kid out of violent protest in Baltimore. Here’s commentary on ABC.  

My first reaction? Damn, that woman is cool. She is fearlessly protecting her son by hitting him upside the head and embarrassing him. While my son is unlikely to be beaten by cops or to be a victim of systemic racism, he is plenty capable of putting himself in dangerous situations. That frontal lobe problem.

The video is going viral. Two different reactions — Motherlode and the Wash Post.